Poll: Do you trust IGN?

[DemonI81]

IGN sells their ratings for games. After reading many of their reviews, it seems like the reviewer hadn't even played the game. All they did was recycle what the publisher had already said about their own game for advertising purposes, while ignoring any and all flaws, no matter how prevalent.

It's simple: Pay IGN in some way (advertising, free stuff, etc...) and you get at least an 8/10.

 

[fullbleed]

Do I trust them? Well I don't think they lie generally, I've just learnt to criticaly disregard anything they say.

 

[the Dept of Science]

Metacritic is the only source I really trust, as any one opinion on one game can vary massively from reviewer to reviewer, so the overall trend tells you a lot more. On the other hand, Metacritic just gives a number, rather than any details or many specific criticism. So generally I just look at a couple of the top reviews and a couple of the bottom.

 

[FullMetalTrenchcoat]

Wouldn't shake a stick at them, I suspect they wouldn't shake one back if they were payed not to.

 

[fullbleed]

Metacritic is the only source I really trust, as any one opinion on one game can vary massively from reviewer to reviewer, so the overall trend tells you a lot more. On the other hand, Metacritic just gives a number, rather than any details or many specific criticism. So generally I just look at a couple of the top reviews and a couple of the bottom.

I don't like Metacritic in that it tends to only select reviews from american sources and ussually from news papers with there almost never being any British publications or specific film magazines or journals. I'm going to trust the critical opinion of Sight and Sound far more than Cristian Science Monitor. Plus there are instances where a film such as Moon recives a poor average score because, forigve me for saying, american critics just didn't seem to get it. If it's a british film at least some british opinions should be taken into account. Plus not all film review scores lend themselves to the 100% scale that metacritic uses, may do things in 5 star ratings or use letter grades A-F and it then becomes subjective what that would represent on a scale of 1-100. Plus as has been said by simply providing a mean average of a majority of critics removes all of the actual criticism from their reviews by reducing it to a numerical value.

 

[BreakfastMan]

I trust it about the same as I trust most other sites and magazines. I find it best to take what everyone says with a grain of salt, but there stuff usually seems to be honest enough.

 

[park92]

i only trust jessica for some unknown reason lol

 

[BritishWeather]

I have two words for all you ign haters:

Jessica Chobot

Have you been outside before?

She has no charm and looks like shes being forced to present daily fix,Greg and Daemon are much more awesome.

Anyhow IGN are pretty dodgy, one article started something like this:

"I haven't been bashing the PS3 in some months now..........Sony are crap....they need to improve etc etc"

 

[Cody211282]

I don't trust game critics at all, IGN isn't any different.

 

[teutonicman]

EH, they're able to get good information but some of their review are.... over-exaggerated.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

I trust it I suppose. I have no reason not to.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I trust some of their other sites, like File Planet, but their reviews aren't very reliable. I trust the reviewers here. Although they do have some of the best walkthroughs out there.

 

[Racecarlock]

They have good trailers and walkthroughs, but their reviewers give tens to anything with a nice graphics engine.

 

[Ironwampa]

I trust them as much as I would trust any news source, after considering as to to whether what they said was plausible and then after that only if it doesn't really matter if what they said were true or false.

 

[Ertol]

They have some good walkthroughs and guides for games, but their scores are horrible. They either give it way to low of a score, or it's way to high. Games that are actually pretty good and deserve a 8 or so get 5's and games that deserve 5's end up getting 9's. I normally just use gamefaqs, because the player reviews there give me a lot better idea on how the game actually works.

 

[Frontastic]

I do to certain extent. I feel you can smell the money on some reviews but others seem to be...ok.

 

[Weaver]

Steve Butts reviewed on IGN! At the very least, I generally trusted Steve and most of the PC team.

In particular I did not like their PS3 team. It seemed like every game that was a pretty good game, say around an 8 or 7.5 was getting like 9's and 9.5's. I just couldn't take their word on things anymore.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Not anymore, every since MW2 came out they have compared EVERYTHING to that, and since they seem to think that game pisses diamonds and can do no wrong nothing else holds a candle to it in their books. It doesn't even have to be a video game, they'll find a way to compare it to modern warfare 2, they are SERIOUSLY dick riding that game. I think when Infinity Ward started having trouble some of them probably offed themselves.

 

[Pipotchi]

I have two words for all you ign haters:

Jessica Chobot

I find her patronising and mildly cretinous but to each their own I guess

 

[Blanks]

While their completed walkthroughs are decent, the reviews are utter crap

No I don't trust them, no I don't go to the site and you can't spell Ignorant without IGN